Opinion

1. Stop financing failure. Rather than providing tax and regulatory relief to all businesses in Connecticut, Gov. Dannel Malloy’s progressive government is content with boosting taxes on all businesses in the state — the highest taxed state in the nation, by the way — and then parceling out to select businesses special exemptions, temporary tax relief and loan forgiveness; a select business is one selected by government officials for special favors, often in...

Opinion

Gov. Dannel Malloy has more or less appointed himself as a national progressive Democratic attack dog, according to an interview with Time magazine: “Seizing an opportunity in a party depleted of household names not Clinton or Obama, Malloy is rising to the occasion, positioning himself as one of the party’s top attack dogs as the 2016 cycle approaches.”

Opinion

Someone – could it have been the ghost of Tom D’Amore – has suggested that the Republican Party should open its primaries to unaffiliateds. An unaffiliated is someone who, for reasons not perfectly understood, does not wish to formally affiliate with political parties.

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We all know that when the price of a taxed product or service drops, tax revenue also decreases. The severe cut in the price of gas, for instance, cannot help but affect Connecticut’s already stratospheric gas tax revenue. When the price of gas at the pump was hovering around $4 per gallon, state government was reaping far more in revenue than is presently the case, after the price of gas at my nearest pump has plummeted to $2.30 per gallon.

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It’s a great puzzle for those who think seriously about getting and spending. During his second winning campaign for governor, Dannel Malloy took tax increases – but not increases in borrowing, the last refuge of spending scoundrels -- off the table. Echoing George H.W. Bush’s boast at the 1988 Republican National Convention, Mr. Malloy invited Connecticut voters in so many words to read his lips: No new taxes.